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Gearing up for World War Three: Nato tanks put on massive show of strength in Germany
dailymail.co.uk ^
| 13 May 2017
| Rebecca Taylor For Mailonline
Posted on 05/13/2017 4:44:25 PM PDT by Chode
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To: Chode
Thanks for posting. Amazing.
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posted on
05/13/2017 8:25:24 PM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: faithhopecharity
"dropping armoured tanks by parachute,.? wow!"
Be thankful we don't ride ours in like this:
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posted on
05/13/2017 8:41:26 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
("Government should be done to cattle and not human beings." - John Milius)
To: shanover; Chode
Lariat Advance Trooper!
I have the graphic but I lost the Treadhead ping list.
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posted on
05/13/2017 8:51:20 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
To: Delta 21; Darkshear
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posted on
05/13/2017 9:23:22 PM PDT
by
Chode
(My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
To: shanover
and with twice as many tracks...
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posted on
05/13/2017 9:26:15 PM PDT
by
Chode
(My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
To: blueunicorn6
Or just send a Cav platoon.
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posted on
05/13/2017 9:34:58 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
To: xrmusn
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posted on
05/14/2017 1:04:58 AM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
To: PLMerite
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posted on
05/14/2017 1:05:44 AM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
To: Chode
Tanks are SO WW2... Didn't the highway from Kuwait teach the army anything. Tanks are just giant sized "Jiffy Pop" containers.
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posted on
05/14/2017 7:34:55 AM PDT
by
Neidermeyer
(Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
To: Neidermeyer
If you’ve lost command of the air!
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posted on
05/14/2017 7:40:11 AM PDT
by
Reily
To: Reily
If we have command of the air we don’t need tanks , if we don’t have command of the air we can’t use tanks.
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posted on
05/14/2017 12:13:21 PM PDT
by
Neidermeyer
(Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
To: PLMerite
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posted on
05/14/2017 6:59:43 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Delta 21; snippy_about_it
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posted on
05/14/2017 7:02:30 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DuncanWaring
I don’t know what it’s called, but I wouldn’t want to be inside that vehicle, if that was the way they kept the crew and tank together.
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posted on
05/14/2017 7:29:20 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
("Government should be done to cattle and not human beings." - John Milius)
To: Chode
The invasion is coming from the Middle East, not Russia.
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posted on
05/14/2017 7:37:40 PM PDT
by
McGruff
(The terrorists have elected to receive.)
To: PLMerite; archy
It’s my recollection/understanding that the tank was dropped “unoccupied”.
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posted on
05/14/2017 7:40:28 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DuncanWaring
Somewhere in some thread I got the idea that the Russians parachuted some of their vehicles with crews inside. I know that they had experimented with it before but had too many cases of “strawberry jam” and gave up.
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posted on
05/14/2017 8:07:51 PM PDT
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PLMerite
("Government should be done to cattle and not human beings." - John Milius)
To: Neidermeyer
>If we have command of the air we dont need tanks , if we dont have command of the air we cant use tanks.
Small tank killing drones are going to change everything. I hope we’re building some.
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posted on
05/14/2017 8:11:43 PM PDT
by
JohnyBoy
To: McGruff
>The invasion is coming from the Middle East, not Russia.
The invasion is already here, it’s the Communists that run the media, the federal bureaucracy and Hollywood.
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posted on
05/14/2017 8:13:03 PM PDT
by
JohnyBoy
To: PLMerite
I dont know what its called, but I wouldnt want to be inside that vehicle, if that was the way they kept the crew and tank together. The Russian VDV airborne routinely drop the crews inside their BMD full-tracked personnel carriers, essentially a light tank, and some of their full-tracked AT guns. They've been doing it long enough that most of the time it works, and they use multiple chutes- as many as a dozen- so that the failure of a single *rag* doesn't result in a bad day at the office. Usually.
When we experimented with similar airborne ops with the M551 Sheridan in Germany in the 1960s, a result of some staff officer finding out the Russians air-dropped their AFVs with the crews inside, we just HAD to try an Airborne Test Delivery team. A flock of sort-of volunteer tankers went through the West German jump school at Altenstadt, and proceeded to work their way up to manned-inside the vehicle drops. Which came to a halt after one [unmanned] Sheridan plowed in nose-down and another landed on its side, smashing the tracks and breaking all the suspension torsion bars. After that the crews jumped separately from the aircraft that were carrying the vehicles, the idea for personnel to land on a DZ on one side of a road and the vehicles on the other, not quite as fast as the Russian way but a little safer. Until one crew running for their track had a late-dropped Sheridan land on them, with two killed. LAPES turned out to be a better idea, and safer. Usually.
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posted on
05/23/2017 11:26:50 AM PDT
by
archy
(Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, then eat you.)
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